Shipping costs.

[gsrick]

Just thought I'd ad this to help with people needing to ship parts. I recently sent the body work and frame for an 80-81 750/1100E from one end of the east coast to the other via three different methods. The body works went in boxes via USPS ground, it was the cheapest option and the frame went by way of Greyhound bus, the only real option I have used for a couple of frames now. Just today I shipped an 89 GSXR 1100 engine he bought from a fellow in the Tampa area and I crated it and dropped it off at a shippers terminal in Lakeland, R&L Carriers. Here are a few picks. The crate for the engine was really cool and assembled easily. I added some eye screws at the corners to use as points to secure the engine from moving around.




The crate arrives in a cardboard box and contains four pieces, the base, top and two sides that unfold and slide into slots. Which you just bend over and hammer flat.



And there you go ready to ship.

Here is how you need to wrap a frame for the bus. Protect all corners and protruding points with card board and wrap with plastic wrap and sealing tape.

[Cipher]

what pressure do you run in the tire?

[Cipher]

China is a communist dictatorship, and in its thirst for foreign currency demands exports. So, China subsidies the shipping cost.

tWhat does the nature of China's form of government have to do with subsidies? BAH!

[gsrick]

what pressure do you run in the tire?

Atmospheric.

[steve murdoch]

Thanks for the heads up on the U-Line crates, Rick.
Not as expensive as i thought.

https://www.uline.ca/BL_427/Standard-Wood-Crates?keywords=crates

I assume you drained the oil? Is it required?

[Cipher]

Atmospheric.

nice one!..................

[gsrick]

Thanks for the heads up on the U-Line crates, Rick.
Not as expensive as i thought.

https://www.uline.ca/BL_427/Standard-Wood-Crates?keywords=crates

I assume you drained the oil? Is it required?

Crap, I knew there was something I was suppose to do.

The guy that sold the engine drained it before I picked it up.

[Burque73]

Yeah, shipping costs. I understand. I wish if I were trying to give something away they would discount the rate though, LOL. It's hard to share stuff with other members when we're spread all over the globe and not take a hit on shipping.

Just trying to give away an old Haynes manual, shipped to Canada mind you, was going to be $25-$30! For an old semi faded and highlighted book that's kinda high. Needless to say I still have it...

[Grimly]

The trick is to find the slow-boat routes.
I bought a rear wheel, complete with disc, drive hub and tyre, from Seattle a few years ago, on ebay.com
I was surprised to see it listed cheaply ($25) and cheap shipping to Ireland ($25).
It took over two months to reach me, as it wound its way around N.America, waiting for empty space on some van / truck / plane that happened to be going in vaguely the right direction. Eventually it came across the pond, landing in Frankfurt, then Birmingham, then Dublin and finally UPS turned up at my door with it.
I was quite keen to open the box to make sure it was undamaged, because in all its travels it was quite possible it had been run over, dropped or blown up.
Insofar as I recall, the sender was a breaker who knew about the cheap shipping options and how to access them.
Same applies to USPS - go to their website and get a quote.
Never believe the first quote; dig deeper and you'll find a lower rate, just that it might be a different category or take longer. For non-perishable parts, who cares how long it takes?
Same applies to a lot of shippers; there's a slowcoach option somewhere, as they'd rather have some low-paying items taking up empty space than nothing at all.

[Rob S.]

Exactly. Ever time I go to the Post Office (remember those?) I always say, "Slowest and cheapest." Works every time.

[Gorminrider]

aye-similar to Grimly's...in Canada I always use the online app from Canada Post and I had to dig deep to get it into the hold of a ship...which by the way is a big part of what China does. With so many ships coming here from there, yet another ten containers is bulk cheap, I guess, versus a few sacks of Canadian Post to Eire maybe... And no denying, internally their wages are cheaper on the way to the dock versus delivery here
As to subsidy, WE used to subsidise Canada Post but apparently it makes a profit now, so there's some added cost...

But, it's getting harder using Canada Post. The recent redesign is everymore streamlined to milk "JoeBlow" so it may pay nowadays to investigate a Business account there..businesses are obviously getting a better rate from what I can see.

[GSXR7ED]

There's a couple of members here from Ireland. I'm about to fly over at the end of this month to Dublin!

My input is this...there must be cheaper methods to ship across the pond. I bought a Suzuki banner on eBay that was shipped from Russia. The banner cost me $42 and shipping was about $20. It took about a month to arrive so I was pleasantly surprised that I had to goto local post office to pick it up.


Ed